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Pre-Historic 




The First Settlers on the Western 
Continent Oriental Free 
Masons 



BY H. S. TANNER, M. D. 



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CLASSyf JUG, v j 



THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE WESTERN CONTI- 
NENT, JAPANESE REFUGEES FROM THE 
SUNKEN CONTINENT OF PAN, ER- 
RONEOUSLY CALLED "ATLANTIS." 



The Mystery Surrounding the Pre-Columbian Period 
of Our Nation's History, Traced Back to 
So-Called Noah's Flood. 



By the World-Renowned Innovator of Time Honored 
Usages and Opinions, 




DR. HENRY S. TANNER, M. D., 

Known as the Forty Days Faster, Who in 1880 Upset All 
the Theories of the Medical Profession on Two Conti- 
nents, and Nullified Every Prediction Made as 
to the Powers of Human Endurance 
Under Prolonged Abstinence From Food. 



A WORD TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MASONIC 
FRATERNITY. 

It is in evidence that the makers of our forgotten history 
were Free Masons. Symbolic writings show that all 
the signs and emblems known to the Order, even to the 
sign of distress, were indellibly inwrought on vases and 
other pottery that had escaped the ravages of time, esti- 
mated at not less than three hundred generations prior 
to the building of the great pile of masonry known as 
Soloman's Temple, which in architectural beauty of 
construction and interior decoration was without a rival 
in this age of palatial grandeur. 

From these Masonic relics of the long-forgotten past, 
we learn what the early Mason did; how he lived; what 
he ate; what he wore; how he hunted and what tools and 
weapons he used, in so unmistakable a manner that all 
doubts as to pre-historic man are consigned to oblivion, 
and awe, admiration and wonder find lodgment in the 
mind of the beholder. 

A recognized authority, dumbfounded by the extent 
and character of pre-historic finds, says: "I believe 
some one will yet penetrate the mystery of the far-distant 
past; its great palaces, its gorges; its mountains and 
painted rocks, its stone cities, etc.; and will yet wrest 
the secret of who the originators were. The silent 
ruins are certainly there. Who will find it?" The 
undersigned, with a "Thus saith the Lord" emphasis, 
affirms that the secret is revealed in the pages of this 
book so that he who runs may read. United States 
Senator J. L. Dolliver of Iowa has faith of like character, 
and is on the tip-toe of anticipation that the revelation 
is near, but thinks that only a "Mighty Genius" with the 
vision of a seer, can fathom the mystery. 

The problem is solved by one making no claims to 
seership, and it now remains to be seen whether the 
"Hero of the Forty Days Fast," which unparalleled event 
was named ''The Great American Sensation," is justly 
entitled to the name and immunities of a "Mighty 
Genius" in addition to the honorary titles already won; 
remains for the public to decide. The transpiring events 
of my phenomenal fasting were daily and hourly sent 
in all directions to the end of the telegraphic world, 
and cablegrams and telegrams were eagerly looked for 
and read by everybody with intense interest, and as 
Professor J. Marion Sims of New York, in a cablegram 
from Paris to me wrote, "ridiculed only by fools." 

The delineator of the wonderful powers of human en- 
durance under prolonged abstinence from food, emerged 
from the great trial, conceded to be without a peer, as a 
demonstrator of MIND OVER MATTER; further, it 
gained for him a prestige that easily won for him the 
conceded fact of being the "best advertised man in the 
world." Therewith Fm content. 



This booklet is dedicated to United States Senator J. P. 
Dolliver, appropriately named the "Cyclone Orator," be- 
cause of the irresistable force with which Versuvius-like he 
belches forth words pregnant with meaning. 

In a speech on "National Vicisitudes" at a Chautauqua 
gathering at Long Beach, CaL, in July, 1903, > the senator 
voiced the following urgent appeal to the patriotism of his 
immense audience: "Would that some mighty genius 
would show us, the people, from whence sprung the be- 
ginnings of this nation; its mighty works, the outcome of 
which is the triumphant self-government of our republic." 

If the contents of the following pages, satisfactorily 
meets the requirements involved in the question, and en- 
titles me to the name of a "mighty genius," then I feel 
in duty bound to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Iowa 
Senator, for the inspiration that led me to delve into the 
mystic realm of forgotten lore, and bring out from ob- 
scurity and neglect facts, of archeological origin, that 
furnishes the missing links in our nation's history that 
connects the present with the forgotten past. The domin- 
ant idea running through our constitution is an "mde- 
structable union of indestructable states;" a legacy from 
the Iroquois confederacy, who assume the framework of 
their constitution was given to them from the "Great 
Spirit" through their "Medicine Men" who stood in the 
same relation to the tribes, that Moses did to the Israelites 

an intermediary between the giver of the law and the 

recipients. If the assumptions of the Iroquois were true, 
then Infinite wisdom was behind Hiawatha, and the 
tribes in formulating their tribal constitution, and from 
the Iroquois we received our constitution and the model 
of our republic. _.. 

Our constitution was then, virtually formulated by Him 
who holds the universe in the "hollow of His hand," given 
to us indirectly through the Iroquois League. What wonder 
then that Gladstone, the "grand old man," should de- 
clare that the constitution of the United States "was the 
greatest intellectual achievement of any age or country." 

Why should it not be when the Great Lawgiver of Sinai 
was the lawmaker and giver. Can anything transcend In- 
finite wisdom in making a constitution and laws? _ As- 
suredly not. Then the only answer to Senator Dolliver s 
query is, it was God working in. and through the framers 
of our national constitution to will and to do of His good 
pleasure, who is the "mighty genius" back of all our his- 
tory — to Him be all the glory. 

The history of the Iroquois and their antecedents will 
be given in the pages of this book and I believe will 
answer satisfactorily Senator Dolliver's question. I sub- 
mit the pages to him for his consideration and respectfully 
dedicate the same to him in the hope and belief that my 
efforts to unravel the past of our country, may not be 
barren of the desired result. 

HENRY S. TANNER, M. D. 



INTRODUCTION 

Before history was there was man. Man began to 
write history only after hundreds and thousands of gen- 
erations had been -gathered to their fathers," after tL 

™z \z en his f those who had gone bef ° re ^ £-5 

£J as the T T ^ f ° Unded UP ° n the Prehistoric, 
us as the present surface of the earth is built up on strata 
hat were formed during the millions of years o'f upbuUd- 

f he frie fun"".: 6 ^ ^ ° f Prl ™-> — 

of lis ZlviL „ Wntten reC ° rds ' or even if the traditions 
or his activities have passed away' 

how E h!V f ^ ^ conscIousl y write what he did and 

feUhfuOv Z d 6arth haS kept the ™" * .o 

fa thfu ly, permanently and unmistakeably, that arch- 

r n d° w s ri t : n t d h P p T sists ° f ° ur day can spe » ° ut 2. "oi, 

JSL- ^ ! ' f0r th0Se less skIlled than they To 

hit h r ^ Msh ^ ^ the large number of facts 
that have been learned about the earliest man on ea«h 
and the small details of his daily life 

But ours is a busy world, and it is impossible for the 
most of us to read all these books, and visit all the mu! 
seums so the results of the research into the pre-historic 

Sk e :z Ten v up , for for us by men quaii « ed to " £ 

task, who tell fascinating tales of prehistoric man and 
how and by what means the facts were collated Z cot 

revel U d h er haS ^ bUt **** is much ™ to be 

revealed ere we can say the history i s complete. The 

writer presents this thesis, in the hope and in the beifef 
me^^r add hiS mItC to the —1 knowledge of prl- 



OUR CIVILIZATION THREE THOUSAND YEARS IN 
ARREARS. 



A Pre-Historic Period On This Continent Proven By 
Archeological Finds Among the Cliff Dwellers 
Ruins. 



With silver tongued eloquence the American oDtimist 
— as occasion offers — patriotically and picturesquely por- 
trays the present and future of the Western Continent as 
the apex of civUization; the nearest approach to the Utop- 
ian dream of the idealist; but the archeologist, who sees 
beneath the surface, the prospective •md retrospective 
view of things is far from flattering or encouraging, for he 
sees many evidences in the relics of pre-historic man that 
justify the concept — if not the affirmation — that our civil- 
ization, as a whole, is far in arrears of one that existed 
on this continent antidating the generally accepted limits 
of pre-Columbian cultures. Where Inca tradition had led 
scientists to believe that Peruvian civilization extended 
back only a few centuries — not antedating the A. D. cal- 
endar, archaelogical explorations have established the fact 
that a far greater civilization flourished many thousands 
of years earlier, and that a highly cultured race, of higher 
development than the Incas, was in existence before the 
Trojan War. 



H El ROGLYPH ICS HELPING HISTORIANS OUT OF 
MANY TROUBLES. 

The Great Architect and Builder of Worlds, Suns and 
Systems, moves "in a mysterious way His wonders to per- 
form." For illustration: Kudur Nunkandi, 2,336 years B. 
C destroyed nearly every city of Babylon; threw into 
ruins the "Temple Library" at Nippur, in which condition 
it remained buried, until excavated less than a quarter of 
a century since. Thanks to the Elaminite hordes, their 
vandalism is proving an inestimable blessing. It de- 
termines, beyond a peradventure, that the clay tablets ex- 
cavated, many thousands, were written about the time 
that Abraham left Babylon for the field of his future labors. 
They bear evidence that they are copies of others, ante- 
dating Abraham by many thousands of years. Among the 
tablets — burnt to a brick-like hardness — are hieroglyphic 
accounts of the Creation and Deluge that will without 



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doubt, corroborate the history of the flood and sunken 
continent presented in this thesis further on. Explorations 
show, that the further back we go, the more highly de- 
veloped civilization they present. 

I assume that the unlimited period of civilization dates 
back not only to the time of Abraham's leaving "Ur of 
the Chaldees" but to centuries antedating even Zoroaster. 

The "cultures" found on this continent, were their true 
history known, would, without doubt, extend back from 
10,000 to 50,000 years. 

The sticklers for the inerrancy of the Pentateuch, cavil 
at the assumption of philologists, that the ruined cities 
of Babylon and Central America, etc., antedating the 
Messianic period. They point to archeological finds in 
Africa, of old temples and pyramids, and the discovery of 
ruined cities beyond Kartoun in Merou. These discoveries, 
they claim, negative the hypothesis that the ruins ante- 
dated the Messianic period. They affirm that the com- 
posite columns of the old temples bear the insignia of 
the "Cross;" they also point to a huge stone discovered as 
far away as Darfield, in Merou. upon which is sculptured 
a "Paschal Lamb." Upon these emblems, the argument 
is based, that the African cities in ruins are less than 
2,000 years old. But the argument carries no weight to 
refute the prehistoric age of the cities in ruins in Babylon, 
Central America, etc., for the reason, we read of Paschal 
lambs at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from 
Egypt. Lamb emblems have an astrological significance, 
dating back to the ancient Chaldeans, who early in their 
history used the lamb as a Zodiacal sign, called Aries. 

The Cross has a history dating back thousands of years, 
in Persia, Zarathrustra (commonly called Zoroaster), it is 
alleged was crucified on a cross, head downward, between 
two thieves. In that far distant age the Cross was used 
to test claimants to gifts of clairvoyance, prophecy, etc. 
All aspirants to prestige as prophets or seers were bound 
with cords, not nailed, to a revolving cross, and left to 
fate. If they were, as they claimed, chosen of the gods, 
it was assumed that the Celestial power would come to 
their rescue and such release was sufficient evidence, that 
they were favored by the gods and that meant reverence 
unstinted. If they were not thus released, they were left 
to perish ignominiously on the cross. 

In view of the fact, I can the more readily compre- 
hend the cry of the rabble at the crucifixion of Jesus of 
Nazareth, who in supercilious disdain cried: "If thou be 



PRE-HISTORIC MAN. 



7 



the Christ, come down from the cross," and again: "He 
saved others, himself he cannot save." 

The sculptured figures on stones and temples in Africa, 
it is affirmed, had an hieroglyphic text, and the Certouch 
of an ancient king that lived in the centuries antedating 
the Pharaohs, nullifying the assumption that the sculptured 
lamb and cross indicated that the African cities in ruins 
did not antedate the A. D. calendar. 



ARCH EO LOGICAL FINDS A PROFOUND SURPRISE. 

The discoveries made on the continents of Asia, Africa, 
and America, have awakened a series of profound surprises 
to explorers, because of the striking similarity of "finds" 
at points geographically remote one from the other, which 
can be reasonably accounted for on the hypothesis that 
Asia is the continent from which the prehistoric people 
of Africa and America emigrated in the manner described. 

It does not require a great stretch of credulity on my 
part, to assume that the accumulation of archeological facts 
will in the next half century, enable coming scientists to 
formulate a history of our continent, based on scientific 
facts, that will dumbfound by their magnitude. Perhaps 
I'm foreordained to blaze the way. The history as it is 
can be traced to the Deluvian age to the sinking of a 
continent called Pan, which originally was a part of Japan. 
Everything associated with Japanese history is just now of 
obsorbing interest. Tke little Brown people, are emerging 
from comparative obscurity to one of the foremost rank 
among nations. Now I assume that the earliest civilized 
settlers of this continent were Japs— survivors of the flood 
— and it is to them we are indebted for all that we are 
as a nation. 

Every nation on the face of the globe, with the ex- 
ception of New Zealand and Australia, has a legend of 
the flood. To study them for the purpose of finding con- 
clusive evidence of its character, date, etc., is to get lost 
in a labyrinth of conflicting ideas and opinions. There is, 
however, a well-grounded belief, extant, endorsed by 
Solon the great Athenean lawgiver — also Plato and con- 
temporaries—that in the long, long ago, a continent as 
large as Europe was submerged. From data in my pos- 
session, I have reached the conclusion, that the awful 
cataclysm that submerged rolling hills and sweeping val- 
leys, was not an anti or post-deluvian event, but was the 
prime factor of the deluge itself, which was due largely 



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to the displacement of a volume of water that dumb- 
founds by its magnitude, submerging a continent called 
"Pan" by the ancients, but which for the want of definit© 
information as to time, place, and character, has been 
named "Atlantis." 

Now it does not require the vision of a seer to per- 
ceive that this displacement would cause the whole earth 
to rock to and fro, like a ship on a tempest-tossed sea, 
the resulting phenomena of which would cause oceans, 
and seas to overlap their boundaries, and the waters to 
come up on the dry land, first the valleys, then the moun- 
tains. The conflicting stories of the deluge referred to, 
has led me to study archeological discoveries in Egypt, 
Babylonia. Siberia. Peru, Central America, Alaska, Cali- 
fornia, etc. These explorations have a profound sig- 
nificance. They are guide-boards, so to speak, pointing to 
a common origin of the many "finds" which it is generally 
conceded are of Asiatic origin, which I assume, on strong 
presumptive, if not positive evidence, originated with the 
deluvians. numbering thousands, who were refugees from 
the sunken continent, which geographically was located 
north of Japan and was originally a part of it. 

Wonderful as is the march of civilization of Egypt 
which built the pyramids, the wonder of the world, the 
development of the preceding cultures was transcendantly 
greater; for explorers show that the further back we go 
the more highly developed is the civilization. Behind this 
dim culture which represents the highest form of advance- 
ment as well as the farthest the archeologists have reached, 
must have been a period, which I assume, dates back to 
the flood, which China assumes occurred 75,000 years since. 
Just as the slow centuries of development were needed to 
bring the ancient peoples of the Nile valley up to the high 
type of civilization which conceived and erected the pyr- 
amids; so a long stretch of time is now known to have 
preceded the development and finished work of cities of 
Peru and Central America, which work antedated that of 
building the pyramids, dating back to the oldest of the 
Pharaohs. 

At the time of the Incas invasion by the Spaniards, who 
wantonly destroyed a civilization on this continent, as 
much superior to its own. as the eagle that soars aloft is 
superior to the lowest forms of life on which it preys, there 
existed relics of a people, highly cultured, that antedated 
the Incas by at least 2,000 years. 

Speaking of this higher civilization, Professor Draper 



PRE-HISTORIC MAN. 



9 



says: "The Incas had attained to a civilization that 
might have instructed Europe; a culture wantonly crushed 
by Spain, who thereby destroyed a people far more civil- 
ized than herself. Among the relics were found ruins of 
former civilizations — temples, cities, and pyramids Rival- 
ing those of Egypt, many of them stupendous, and are 
today architectural wonders, on the origin of which tra- 
ditions cast but a dim light." Science has been able to 
read in these ruins of mounds, canals, fortifications, tem- 
ples, cliff dwellings, buried cities, and villages, found in 
Peru, Central America, Mexico, and the territory on the 
Northern continent, relics in endless variety, the origin of 
which science is silent; all is hypothetical and conjectural. 

UNIVERSAL CIVILIZATION, LANGUAGE AND 
CHURCH. 

The silver tongued American patriot — already alluded 
to — at the Congress of Religions, urged the necessity of a 
Universal Religion, a universal form of government, a uni- 
versal language, and championed the fashioning of this 
grander future after models the United States furnished, 
claiming our republic furnished an ideal basis for a model 
universal civilization, a model language, a model church, 
and a universal religion." 

The Oriental priests were there, deeply interested in 
ftie prospectus formulated by the representatives of "West- 
ern Civilization." 

They were thoughtful, patriotic, but less optomistic 
than their brethren of the Occident. In perfect English, 
they pointed out the claims of the "Orient" to recognition, 
as also having models of civilization, worthy the consid- 
eration of the congress, and the idealists of all nations. 
They pointed out in vigorous terms, the many dangers 
that menaced our republic and the necessity of a study of 
the different religions of the world which they assumed 
had one common root; also languages, could be traced 
back to one common origin. The point was emphasized 
that with the study of archeology, ethnology and philology 
a change will be sure to come that will consign old myths 
to oblivion and the coming man, represented by the 
"Church Triumphant," the coming church, will stand on a 
foundation built on that condensed statement of both the 
law and the gospel, the two commandments, recognized 
by all the world— Jew and Gentile — as the only basis of a 
true civilization. 

The Orientals conceded, that there were many points 



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of excellence in the many institutions of our Republic, 
secular and religious, but that America had a monopoly of 
heaven's choicest blessings, they could not admit con- 
scientiously. They contended that there were many coun- 
teracting influences, that it' not arrested in their demoral- 
izing effects, unmistakeably pointed to a decadence of our 
nation's glory, in fact they more than hinted that the "Star 
cf Empire" on the Western Continent had already reached 
the zenith of its glory, and was again eastward wending to 
Orient itself. 



UNITED STATES IN DECLENSION. 

They pointed with telling effect to the fact that crime, 
murder, insanity, suicides and peverty were increasing with 
fourfold greater rapidity than the increase of population; 
that with only one exception — Russia— statistics show that 
the United States leads in crime, etc. 

Further i< was assumed that all our boastings about 
our progress as a nation was very largely on the side of 
Mammon worship, which did not tend to lift the masses 
out of the mud and mire of sensualism. The Orientals 
more than hinted that the greater our prosperity as a 
world power, commercially, the further it wandered away 
from the teachings of the ideal character Christendom pro- 
fessed to reverence and follow, who continually warned 
his disciples against greed, the besetting sin of the West- 
ern continent. Further it was charged that in spiritual 
matters, we as a nation were hardly as far progressed as 
the fisherman that followed in the footsteps of him whom 
the church professed to be the embodiment of all the vir- 
tues. The whole energies of life were spent in the accum- 
ulation of lands, houses, mortgages, bank and other stocks 
of all kinds. What the nation really worshipped was gold, 
and in its worship it fulfills the letter of the commandment 
and loved it with all the heart, mind, soul and strength — all 
unmindful of the second commandment; "Love thy 
neighbor as thyself." Are these charges true? If so, let 
us as a nation first pluck out the beam from our own eye, 
before attempting to pluck out the mote from our Orients 
brother's eye." 

Accepting the affirmation of McClure's Magazine with 
others of authority, that we as a nation are fast reaching 
the degenerate condition of ancient Rome, Greece, Bab- 



PRE-HISTORIC MAN 



11 



ylon and Egypt it behooves us to take our latitude and 
longitude to learn where we are and whereto we are tend- 
ing, with the view of holding up the causes to the gaze 
of the masses, emphazing their import, venture an analysis, 
and suggest remedies. It is conceded that Western civil- 
ization is today better informed along the line of many 
collossal enterprises, notably the trusts, but is it as brave, 
as persistent as irresistible, as it was in the days of 
simpler living such as established the Incas civilization on 
this continent in the long, long ago? Study the following 
from the pen of Thomas Speedy Mosby, state pardon at- 
torney of Missouri, and then judge. He says: "Crime 
costs the people of the United States annually two nundred 
million dollars." Further he asserts "If we consider also 
the well known unproductiveness of the criminal class, gen- 
erally, this would bring the estimated burden of crime 
up to fully $500,000,000 per annum. Every honest man in 
this country who is the head of a family, is obliged to 
pay not less than $25.00 per annum on this account, and 
the per capita cost of crime is much more than the per 
capita cost of education." Think of it, and then decide 
for yourself, reader, if the Oriental priests portrayed a 
mere grewsome picture of our nation's declension than the 
facts warrant? I leave you to decide. If not, let there be no 
more "sand lot" oratory about our nation being the "Alpha 
and Omega" of all the nations of the earth, but rather 
let us repent in "sack cloth and ashes" ere the doom of 
Sodom and Gomorrah overtake us. The same omnipotent 
power that wrote the doom of an empire in the "hand 
writing on the wall" of Belshazzer's palace, has not vacated 
His throne, nor has the sceptre of righteousness departed 
from His hand. 

Western civilization is profuse — like the "Barren Fig 
Tree" in foliage, leaves are abundant, but the figs are not 
materializing to the extent we have a right to expect from 
the time, money and energy expended in their culture. 

Are our civic institutions "cumberers of the ground," 
like the "Barren Fig Tree" in the parable; and if so may 
it not be possible that the Great All Wise Dispenser of 
events in our history may in stentorian tones like the 
thunder blasts of Sinai, issue his ultimatum — to be obeyed: 
"Cut them down, they are cumberers of the ground?" The 
question will do to talk and pray over. 



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PRE-HISTORIC MAN. 



THE INCOS THE BEST REPRESENTATIVES OF A 
UNIVERSAL CIVILIZATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. 

What of the Incas culture on this continent which I 
have brought conspicuously to the front in contrast with 
our present demoralized condition, characterized by graft 
in high places. I have not time to go into details of the 
practical workings of their community life. Suffice it to 
say that the Incas were a repetition in history of the 
communistic life of the Esseneans, the community in which 
the Nazarene was born and raised and educated, and to 
which all the early disciples and later the apostles were 
covenanted members. 

On the Pentecostal occasion, Acts 2, at which 5,000 were 
converted to the Essenean doctrines and practices, the 
record states "that the multitude of them that believed, or 
converted by the apostles' preaching, were of one heart, 
one soul; neither said any one of the things which they 
possessed were their own, but they had all things in com- 
mon. Neither was there among them any that lacked, for 
as many of them as were possessed of houses and landa 
sold them, and brought the price of the things that were 
sold and laid them at the apostles' feet, and distribution 
was made unto every one according to their needs. And 
Barnabas, having land sold it, and brought the money and 
laid it at the apostles' feet; one of the initial ceremonies 
of a convert before joining the community. All Bibio 
readers are acquainted with the tragic event that caused 
the sudden demise of Annanias and Sapphira. They applied 
f jv admission tv the community, but they kept back pare 
of the price of the land sold, and my reader knows the 
sad ending. 

Now the Incas community was of precisely the same 
order and practices and their great numerical strength 
and vast wealth as a community demonstrated that the 
Gospel plan of civilization is the highest, grandest, chief 
excellence, the crowning glory of all civilizations that hare 
ever existed on the planet. Its basic principle was the 
two commandments: "Love God with all thy heart, mind 
soul and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself." A code ot 
ethics broad enough fcr any nation or individual to live by 
vnc\ die by. Any person living those principles as did 
Jesus of Nazareth can die singing their prayers and shout- 
ing glad anthems of praise to the Giver of all Good. 



PRE-HISTORIC MAN. 



13 



"Great events cast their shadows before"; the shadows 
are clearly perceptible to the eye of spiritual perception. 
Its coming, and that we may be prepared to conceive 
what will transpire when the "kingdom of heaven is 
established on earth," I will quote from the August 26th 
number of the "Twentieth Century Magazine," in which 
the writer, Alexander Harvey, among other things said 
of the Incas "That communistic ideas have a solid foun- 
dation on which to stand is evidenced by the rise of a 
mighty nation, that grew to mighty proportions, and 
numbered its citizens by the millions, through simple 
adherence to the principles now preached by the COL- 
LECTIVEISTS. The great people had no capitalists, 
and no competition. Every thing was owned in common. 
Every man, woman and child was assured a comfortable 
home, food and clothing. There was no labor problem, 
for the only employer was the state. There was no 
money, for no one had anything to sell. There was no 
theft, for whatever a citizen wanted he could have for 
the asking. There was no crime, and no public disorder, 
and that modern scorge, poverty, was unknown. 

The Incas is the name by which history hands the 
record of these people down to us. 

Theirs is a marvelous story. It is so beautiful as to 
be almost a dream, but that it was a reality we have the 
positive evidence. Prescott, the historian, is so naive 
as to wonder how the Incas, with their vast population 
and enormous wealth, could have been so happy, so 
prosperous and so enlightened, in spite of the fact that 
private property was unknown among them; that they 
had no idea of crime, in our sense of its expression, and 
that no man could inherit, bequeath or accumulate any- 
thing. 

Their land was a paradise. Beautiful buildings in 
stone and cement rose at intervals throughout its vast 
extent. 

Their roads were magnificent; they were hard and 
solid, and have endured to the present day. Noble 
aqueducts, traversing the country for hundreds of miles 
in some instances, and constructed on the strictest 
scientific principles, plentifully supplied the cities with 
pure water. Their cities were dreams of beauty. They 
were as clean as the interior of a palace, and as su- 
perb architecturally as an agglomeration of majestic 
cathedrals. 

There were no stores, no business, no bartering. 
Such things were unknown. The marked physical 
beauty of the Incas greatly impressed the first Europeans 
who beheld them. This was due to the extreme care 
taken to preserve them from privation and illness. No 
Incas was permitted to labor more than a third of a day, 
and frequently not so long as that. The country was 



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immensely resourceful in gold, but it was employed 
only in decorating their temples. 

So surprising is the altruistic nature of their civili- 
zation, in contrast with our own, that it is difficult to 
believe that the Incas and their history is not the part 
of some imaginary tale. Yet never was history more 
veracious, and this account of them is purposely under- 
stated. 

The lives lived by the Incas did not lack variety. 
Every man and woman was called upon to do some 
work, not laborious, but pleasant. The hours of labor 
averaged five daily, not counting holidays, which were 
numerous. There was no such thing as wages. Every 
Incas, upon his marriage, was given a home and garden 
attached, all complete. These homes were constantly 
being prepared, and work upon them was performed by 
the state. The food supply was always in excess of the 
demand. It all belonged to the state, and was regularly 
distributed by state officials. There was no stint in 
the supply. 

Immense warehouses, of exquisite beauty, stored the 
public supplies. The public flocks supplied wool, from 
which garments were made. There was no detail con- 
nected with the life of the people too trivial for the 
care of the state. Particularly was the health of the 
masses the first care. The government practiced the 
most intelligent unselfishness. Precisely as the wise 
shepherd has an eye to the welfare of even his youngest 
lamb, did the government of the Incas vigilantly aim 
at the welfare and physical perfection of its subjects. 
Their strength and prosperity was its bulwark. Life 
throughout the vast empire was wonderfully peaceful 
and happy. Architecture was almost Roman grandeur. 
Science was a public servant, and its aids were great 
bridges, monuments and temples numerous. Art was 
visible in the garb and homes of the people. Public 
morality and private virtue were of the highest order. 

So wonderfully cohesive was the nation under their 
regime, that from a humble beginning it rapidly spread 
over South America, and in the course of two centuries 
had reduced neighbring countries to submission, not 
by force or violence, but by example of right, vastly 
more potent than might. 

These peaceful communists were formidable in pro- 
mulgating their principles. No sooner had they con- 
quered their enemies by the Golden Rule of conduct, 
than their civilization followed as a natural sequence. 
The new members of the body politic were readily as- 
similated. There is no record of any rebellion against 
so munificent a system, which the pure and undefiled 



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religion, as taught by the Judean prophet, priest and 
healer, commonly called the Messiah, lived. The Incas 
civilization spread rapidly in all directions, until the 
invasion of the Spaniards, with their weapons of war, 
swept the Incas away like chaff. The Incas were emi- 
nently refined. Their courtesies and amenities of life 
were punctiliously observed. They were cleanly and 
pure. They were never rude. Their government was in 
a sense a despotism, the rule of the chief Incas being 
supreme. Yet all were equally under the law, from the 
Supreme Incas to the shepherd boy. There was a rigid 
religious caste, but no oppression. The chief Incas was 
a father, in the truest and best sense. Indeed, this sys- 
tem rendered oppression superfluous, for nothing could 
be gained by either. The Incas demonstrated the feasi- 
bility, desirability and practicability of Primitive Chris- 
tianity. If in this 20th century we are incapable of 
profiting by their example, then denominationalism is 
sadly in arrears of the Incas. Truly may it be said the 
the government of the Incas was of the people, by the 
people and for the people. Emulate! Emulate! 

The Incas may be pointed to as the people who, 
when the prayer of the ages, 'Thy kingdom come," 
is fulfilled, we shall see a repetition of the Incas history 
repeating itself. 

It was solely owing to the fact that the Incas lived 
the "pure and undefined religion," that they were enabled 
to become the dominant race of South America. The 
invading Spaniards owed their supremacy to gunpowder, 
against which the Incas had no means of contending. 

Civilization, as we know it, is one long record of 
unspeakable shame and infamy, but nothing in its record 
is more revolting than its invasion into the territory of 
the peacful, law-abiding, God-adoring, reverent Incas. 

Our civilization proved the curse of the Incas, and 
swept them off the face of the earth; they strictly ad- 
hering to the non-resistant teachings of the Messianic 
code taught and lived by the Nazerenes, of which Jesus 
of Nazereth was a type. They were unprepared to re- 
sist the conquering, bloodthirsty Spaniards, the minions 
of the unscrupulous Church of Rome, which has written 
its history in human gore. 

Mark Twain, with characteristic satire, has held up 
the looking glass before the "Church Militant" that in- 
vaded the homes of the peaceful Incas with telling effect. 
He says: "I bring you the stately maiden named civili- 
zation, returning bedraggled, besmirched, dishonored, 
from PIRATE raids in Manchuria, Africa and the Phil- 
ipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pockets full 
of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocricacies; 
give her soap and towel, but hide the looking glass." 



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THE CHURCH IN A TRANSITION STATE. 

The church at large is in a transition state, from the 
"Church Militant to the prospective Church Triumphant"— 
the church that is to be. There is much activity in cer- 
tain circles, the object of which is Church Federation and 
it is well. The Federated church — or the "Church Tri- 
umphant" as the scriptures name it, will be based on the 
Golden Rule of conduct as taught and lived by the 
Messiah, whose "Life was the Light of men." 

The primitive church, recognized the ever presence of 
the Creator as a sublimely active, inspiring and animating 
force in all the affairs of life. 

Whenever, if at all, the Federated church, as a unit, 
shall divorce itself from the traditional theology that has 
come down from the midnight of the dark ages — often 
enforced by the faggot and the sword — and plants itself 
firmly, squarely, and unequivocally on the principles of 
the primitive church, the day of its trials will cease, not 
before. 

The Church -Militant held man-made doctrines the 
one great essential of a religious life. Believe something 
and you will be saved; deny the creed, and you will be 
condemned; consigned to everlasting torments. The result 
of all this is a multiplicity of creeds and beliefs. Six 
hundred sects — each and all claiming to be Christians and 
each and all assuming to be based on sound doctrines. 
As a sequence the earnest seeker after truth finds him- 
self lost in a labyrinth of conflicting ideas and opinions, 
and yields to dispair. 

All this is now changing, the transformation from the 
old to the new will in time emphasize soundness of life, 
taking Christ as the standard, assuming that if we live up to 
that "we shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God," 
by its fruitage in our behaviour. It makes no difference 
to religion, whether a statement in the Bible is inspired, 
or whether it is simply true. Nor does it make any dif- 
ference to religion whether Moses compiled the Pentateuch 
or Ezra or Esdras of a later date. Ezra says the Books of 
the Lav/ were burnt by King Antiocus Epiphenes, and that 
he was inspired to rewrite them. But let that be as it 
may in either case one can love God and his fellow man 
just the same. It makes no difference to a Twentieth 
Century disciple, whether a voice speaking in stentorian 
tones like the thunder blasts of Sinai, is God's voice, or 
whether it is caused by a collapse of a vacuum in the air. 
God plans and executes just the same, and His benefl- 



PRE-HISTORIC MAX. 



IT 



cent purposes are being revealed regardless of men's be- 
lief or unbelief. The niceties of disquisition about the 
constitution of the Godhead, or the interrelation of a dual 
nature in Jesus Christ — it being claimed that He was 
both God and man — are philosophical and not religious— 
and if people care less and fight less, about the old theo- 
logical riddles that have rent and torn the followers of 
the meek and lowly Nazarene into warring sects, it does 
not prove them less religious; possibly, only less partisan, 
critical and bigoted. 



MY USE OF THE PRUNING KNIFE NOT DE- 
STRUCTIVE, BUT CONSTRUCTIVE. 

Now in my elucidation of prehistoric man on 
this continent my assumptions will seemingly conflict with 
traditional theology, but the conflict will be apparent only 
not real. Some one or more sticklers for the inerrancy of 
the Genesis account of the deluge, will perhaps affirm that 
if my assumptions in regard to the flood are true then we 
must give up our Bibles, and without our Bibles we shall 
be adrift upon life's perilous sea, without a pilot, chart or 
compass. Reader, don't be too hasty in drawing such a 
conclusion. The Bible may be correct but its renderings 
by commentators, revising committees and ecclesiastical 
councils and synods making no claims to inspiration, may 
be faulty and consequently misleading. 

The Church Militant— the stickler for sound doctrines- 
was wrought up into a frenzy of vitriolic anger, when the 
account of the "Six days creation" was disputed by the 
revelations — which the spade in the hands of the geolog- 
ist proved to be an error, beyond a peradventure. 

The old objection was raised, if geology is true, that we 
must give up our Bibles, for we have nothing to anchor to. 
Our theology is merely a phantom fortress, built on a 
sandy foundation. But a more thorough research revealed 
the scriptural truth that the statement that the world 
was created in six days could be given a wider latitude 
than six literal days of twenty-four hours duration, could 
be rendered — without doing violence to God's word — into 
six geological periods, each an indefinite period — cycles of 
time embracing thousands of years. 

Traditional theology had up to that time, not realized 
the significance of the Bible statement, that "One day with 
the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years 
as one day.*' 



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When that door of escape was opened for Its defense, 
traditional theology breathed easier, and yielded its con- 
test with the geologist without further dispute. In that 
dispute the Bible triumphed over false interpretations of 
those who claimed to be God's guardians of truth, and His 
appointed agents to reveal His will to man. 

When the writer assumed that it was possible in this 
age to fast forty days— as did the prophets and seers of 
antiquity, the representative of traditional theology— both 
in the pulpit and pews— raised the cry, "Tanner is as- 
suming to be equal with Christ, and is fasting with the 
intent to undermine the faith of the world in miracles." 
I have yet to learn that any one's faith in miracles was 
undermined by my demonstration of the truth of the 
promise, made by Christ to hir disciples, namely, "Greater 
works than these shall ye do because I go to my Father." 

The difference between myself and my detractors, is, I 
took the Christ at His word; my opponents profess faith, 
but they do not act it. Their's was "faith without works;" 
which James says "is dead, being alone." Did my fast 
of forty days interfere with the faith of the world in the 
divine mission of Jesus of Xozareth? Most assuredly not. 
It strengthened the wavering faith of many who" were 
inclined to accept the dictum of science, that ten days 
was the limit of human endurance under prolonged ab- 
stinence from food. My fast was a triumph for Bible 
truths and a severe rebuke to the arrogant assumptions of 
a pseudo science. In my rendering of the flood history, 
I shall no doubt jolt and jar the generally conceived 
opinions of those regarded as authority in ecclesiastical 
ranks, but that does not prove them untrue or a menace 
to the doctrines and principles of the true church, of which 
Christ is the founder and chief. 

It requires no great stretch of credulity on my part to 
accept as a fact the faith of the old prophets and seers 
that the Creator of worlds, s un s and systems, has left 
an open way by which His inspirations— and consequent 
revelations— can find easy entrance into the inner sanctu- 
ary of a truly aspiring soul, who relies upon the promise, 
"Ask and ye shall receive; seek and ye shall find; knock 
and it shall be opened unto you." The philosophic thought 
of the age is carried back to the time when the bulk of 
mankind accepted inspiration as a living reality, and that 
it should anchor our advanced theologians and philoso- 
phers, where the ancient Hindoo and Egyptians stood three 
thousand years ago, is the marvel of the age. The Hindoo 
sages said— in the remote past— the whole universe is 



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composed of but one primary element, which they named 
Akassa, Paul — the apostle — penned a truth, that was old 
in Abraham's time, when he wrote "The things which 
are seen are not made of things which do appear." Elec- 
tricity, another name for Akassa, is not a thing which ap- 
pears to our senses, yet it is now known beyond a per- 
adventure, to be the one and only primary element, all the 
so-called primates are now known to be compounds, 

It being in evidence that the inspired philosophers of 
the Orient, without the aid of microscopes. spectroscopes, or 
pitch blend, discovered Radient energy thousands of years 
since, may we not be pardoned if we give credance to the 
Oriental legends of a sunken continent, which I shall as- 
sume, was the cause of the flood. TVe of the Occident, 
are many thousands of years in arrears of the land of the 
"Rising Sun" in our philosophy, in the arts and sciences; 
may we not then profitably study its religions, its his- 
tories, without rebuke or ridicule? 

I so affirm, and in my research for data regarding the 
flood, I avail myself of the superior wisdom of the Orien- 
tals bearing- upon the subject of the prehistoric man. 

THE GENESIS FLOOD HISTORY ONLY FRAG- 
MENTARY. 

When a detailed history of the sinking of a continent 
—called Pan— is archeologically and philologically revealed, 
which it will be in time— we shall And that the "Ark of 
Noah" so called, had no reference to a seagoing craft 
containing a family consisting of Noah and his sons, Shem, 
Ham and Japheth. but to a cycle of time (called the "Arc 
of Noe") of not less than three thousand years duration; 
and that in place of one small family escaping in a sweat 
box, without ventilation, which Bishop Colenso affirms 
would not have storage capacity for the provender neces- 
sary to provision the "two and two" of every kind of 
quadruped, biped, birds, etc., for forty days, saying nothing 
about the long space of time that must necessarily elapse 
before the earth would again provide from her generous 
bosom the wherewith to feed, and care for the many forms 
of life on their emerging from the ark, not less than ninety 
days, at a conservative estimate, it is now in evidence 
that Instead of one boat, insignificant in size, there was at 
least thirty-five fleets of vessels carrying twelve thousand 
refugees, which were scattered in ships to the continents 
of Asia, Africa, and America, forming the centres of civili- 
zation that in the long, long ago, built the pyramids of 



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Egypt, crafts for navigating oceans and inland seas; a 
temple in Old Mexico, described by Humboldt as having 
three hundred and sixty-five turrets, representing days of 
the calendar year. It was in its day as much of a wonder as 
Solomon's Temple, equal in its orneated Interior to any 
thing of ancient or recent date. The roof and turrets- 
three hundred and sixty-five of them— are covered with 
copper which evidently came from the copper mines of 
Lake Superior. There is evidence that the Mound Build- 
ers of that far distant age, built and navigated a canal 
extending from the copper mines mentioned to the heart 
of Old Mexico, a stupendous enterprise for that day and 
generation surely— equal to anything the pyramid builders 
exemplified in the transit of huge stones by canal, built for 
the express purpose of conveying the huge blocks of gran- 
ite and marble from the place where quarried to their place 
in the "Pyramid of Cheops." Pity, we have not some of 
those prehistoric men in this age. Without doubt they 
could give us practical knowledge as to engineering and 
working out the problems involved in the water-way con- 
struction of a canal between the Gulf of Mexico and the 
Pacific ocean. 



WRITING OF PRE-HISTORIC CANALS. 

Robert Brewster Stanton, consulting engineer of the 
Utah & Pacific Construction Co., saw and examined some 
of the irrigation and city supply water works through a 
system of storage reservoirs, by damming the mountain 
streams and conducting the water by conduits to the lower 
plains, viewing the enterprise with all the keen scrutiny 
of an expert engineer, dumfounded by what he saw, he re- 
ported his conclusion in the following pertinent words: 

"Not merely small farm ditches, but canals of enormous 
capacity, and aggregating thousands of miles in length and 
covering hundreds of thousands of acres, planned and ex- 
ecuted with a knowledge of engineering, and I believe, 
laid out with instruments of precision, and with an ap- 
preciation of the value, power, distribution and service of 
water that should put to blush some of our modern irri- 
gating engineers, and our would-be makers of irrigation 
laws." 

What is true of ancient engineering is true also of the 
ancient civilization known as the "Cliff Dwellers." In 
some localities we find the most remarkable remains of 
antiquity of immense cities, containing vast buildings, 

palaces and temples, built of granite, marble., etc. 



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It is safe to assume that the "Great Palace of the 
Mancos" on our own continent, stands second to none in 
Egypt or elsewhere. Originally it embraced not less than 
thousand rooms, which in finish has been seldom equaled, 
never excelled by any other structure of ancient or modern 
times Travelers who have visited the ruins, assure us 
that It originally covered an area of 480 000 square , feet 

These monuments of architectural skill, are found at 
elevations varying from two hundred to eight hundred 
feet above the bed of the stream. Holmes mentions some 
of these cliff dwellings so high and well concealed that 
even with the aid of a telescope they can hardly be dis- 
tinguished from the surrounding rocks, which the exteriors 
of the vast piles of masonry are designed to resemble. 

Charles D. Poston, of Phoenix, Arizona, came very near 
the truth when he wrote for publication: "I'm not sure 
whether any one who has been through the Cliff Dwellers 
country and looked on the wonders that nature hath 
wrought, its gorges, its mountains, and painted rocks and 
upon its ancient stone cities, its cliff dwellings, and its 
canyons, is afterwards quite sane." 

THE WONDERFUL SKILL OF PRE-HISTORIC MAN 
REFERRED TO ADEQUATE CAUSES. 

The question has been asked by philosophers, whence 
the wisdom and architectural skill manifested in the erec- 
tion of Solomon's temple and its orneated interior, scarcely 
equalled, never excelled, In this age of mechanical won- 
ders' Then again the scriptures give us the dimensions of 
so-called Noah's ark, its height, width, and length, and 
those whose business it is to build ships, are unanimous 
in their verdict that the architecture of the ark cannot be 
improved upon, in this age of mechanical skill. Whence 
the skill of the deluvians in ship building and navigating 
unknown seas, without a pilot, chart or compass? and all 
making their destined port? 

The things mentioned are all a part of the forgotten 
history of other continents beside our own. All are a part 
of the history of the Red Star— our world— and which our 
archeologists are bringing out of obscurity and neglect. 

But it is with the forgotten history of our own country 
I have to deal, and by its reflected light we may get 
glimpses of truth that may aid us in solving the mystery 
surrounding the pyramids of Egypt, King Solomon's tem- 
ple, and the building of ships by a people utterly ignorant 
of navigating oceans and seas, without the loss of a ves- 



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sel, or a soul stranded on the shores of time. 

There is but one solution of the problem the past his- 
tory of our earth presents as to the source of the wisdom 
and power manifested by the ancients in building pyra- 
mids, temples and ships, and that is that Infinite wisdom 
and power, was at the helm, directing all the stupendous 
enterprises mentioned and carrying each and all through 
to their predestined consummation. 



THE RED MEN RECIPIENTS OF CELESTIAL LIGHT. 

It taxes the credulity of many of my readers to the 
utmost to accept my assumption that God should conde- 
scend to foreordain the Red men of the forest to build a 
model for our republic several hundred years before the 
advent of the "pale faces" on this continent. They have 
been taught that inspiration ceased about the fourth cen- 
tury, and that a s a sequence the Red men, nor no others— 
couid be brought under Celestial guidance to the extent 
that I have assumed. 

In answer to the doubt thus implied, I would say, that 
when the Supreme power decrees an onward movement for 
the good of the race, He chooses his instruments from out 
of the ranks of men without prestige as a rule. The 
"Medicine Men" of the many tribes were peculiarly sus- 
ceptable to revelations from Celestial sources, and as a 
sequence were often illumined to see ahead for many 
generations and thus prophesy of coming events that were 
to mould the destinies of nations and individuals. Tra- 
ditional theology that has come down to us from the 
midnight of the "Dark Ages," as a rule, denies a living In- 
spiration in this age but nearly all our poets and prose 
writers, who have won prestige, testify that inspiration is 
a living reality today, as in the days of the prophets and 
seers of antiquity. I might cite many poets who have 
thus written but the following from the pen of Longfel- 
low will suffice as it is a sample of many others of like 
import: 

"Revelation is not sealed, 

Answering upon man's endeavour; 
Truth and right are still revealed; 

That which came to ancient sages — 
Greek, Barbarian, Roman, Jew, 

Written in the heart's deep pages 
Shines today for ever new." 
Inspiration came to Longfellow, without doubt, when he 
penned Hiawatha. It was a just tribute to the Indian 
character, as in the olden times he roved free and joyous, 
fearing naught that might come upon him here or here- 



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after. Both conditions were to him and his "a happy hunt- 

inS O g a r hspe,'"a book upon which I bank as a basis for my 
assumptions that the first settlers of this continent 
were deluvians, claims to be a book of revelations, and 
if fulfillment of prophecies are proof of its assumption, 
then they are conclusive of the question. It is no 
longer debatable. It takes the problem out of the 
realm of speculation and places it where it properly 
belongs, in the realm of recognized fact. 



WHERE ARE GOOD BOOKS TO BE FOUND ON 
FLOOD HISTORY? 

Any book that gives us information of a civilization 
like the Essenean Brotherhood or the Incas community 
is a good book and worthy of all acceptation. So also a 
book that gives us a history of the creation of worlds, 
suns, and systems, and the MODUS OPEBANDI of ,he 
Creator in the government of planets; how newly created 
man made history, pre-historic or otherwise is ; a good 
book; but all such should have ways and means by which 
to prove their revelations true. When in the year 1880 
assumed, in the face of all authority to the contrary, that 
forty days total abstinence from food was within the 
range of the possible, a skeptical world cried out vehem- 
ently: "Prove it! Prove it!" 

And I proved it to the satisfaction of the scientific and 
religious world on two occasions by fasting 40 days, 14 
days of the last fast without water or other fluids. 

The day has gone by when thinkers will accept proc- 
lamations or assumptions; the world demands plausible 
reasons or positive proofs that the authority is not a mere 
speculative one, but a demonstrable fact. 

Prove it! Prove it! is still the just demand; and my 
assumption in regard to the sunken continent, and con- 
sequent flood must pass the ordeal of jus, criticism, which 
I strenuously invite. 

The "Book of Mormon" assumes to be inspired direct 
from God, but it gives us no means to test its assumptions 
as to its truth or falsity, consequently the book has 
proved an ignominious failure in demonstrating its as- 
sumptions. 

Now for the hypothetical novelties I shall introduce, 
bearing prehistorical history, will carry on their face 



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strongly pronounced, if not positive evidence that my af- 
firmations have as a basis demonstrable proof. If I 
could not do so I would not intrude on the time and pa- 
tience of my readers with mere speculative opinions like 
the authors of "Ten Lost Tribes," the "Phoenecian Mer- 
chants," the "Ophir of Solomon," the "Lost Atlantis," the 
"Book of Mormon," etc. All these writers concede that 
prehistoric man existed on this continent, and by slow 
development ascended from conditions not many removes 
from monkeys; but as to the people themselves, who they 
were, or their connection with Asiatic races, when and by 
what means and by what route they reached our shores, 
or their final exit; they are as silent as Pagan idols; all 
is conjectural. But all these speculative theories have not 
been barren entirely of the desired result. They have at 
least opened the way for more definite information; as one 
after the other aproximated a little nearer the desired 
knowledge. The "Book of Mormon" assumes that the 
prehistoric man landed on our shores in eight vessels 
from Asia, and were the Tower Builders of Bible history. 
Josephus seemingly falls in line with the Mormon render- 
ing, as I will show further along. But neither theory meets 
the exacting demands of this hypercritical age. Both 
authorities leave a dark subject where they found it. A 
Tower of Babel, "discord and confusions of tongues." It is 
therefore not surprising that little interest in the subject 
of our forgotten history is manifested by the average 
American, and yet we might search in vain for a more 
fascinating and instructive theme than the story of primi- 
tive man. 



DR. ALEXANDER HRDLICA'S NEGATIVES. 

Recently Dr. Alexander Hrdlica is on record as say- 
ing: "No evidence has been produced to show the exist- 
ence of prehistoric man on the American continent, that 
no human bones of undisputed geological antiquity are 
known." 

If the doctor would visit the Mesa Verde cliff Dwel- 
lers' relics in Southwestern Colorado, Northern New Mex- 
ico, Northern Arizona, and Southeastern Utah he would 
find mummified remains of men to refute his theory. The 
mummies are found in the dark recesses of the caves 
of the "Cliff Dwellers" usually in a sitting position. Here 
in these catacombs, in the high dry atmosphere, the dust 
of ages has settled on them and preserved them to the 
same extent as the Egyptian mummies. These mum- 



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mies nullify beyond a peradventure the assumptions ol 
the attache of the United States Museum at Washington. 

These Cliff Dwellers are not yet extinct on this conti- 
nent as the following report of Benjamin Goode, a miner, 
and Father Mariano Guerrero, a priest, certify. They re- 
port that near Maguariachic, Chihuahua, Mexico, the re- 
markable discovery of a race of "Cliff Dwellers" has been 
made. They live in cliff houses as the supposed extinct race 
of cliff dwellers lived. They subsist on game killed with 
crude weapons. They run at the approac-n of strangers. 
Their vocabulary is different from any known in Mexico, 
and said to consist of only a few words. They are very 
small. Their village is in a district full of ruins of pre- 
historic cliff dwellers. 

A writer of note who had visited the Cliff Dwellers' 
ruins, writing on the subject, says: "With the exception 
of their picture writing on the canon walls, the ancient 
inhabitants of these valleys and cliffs have left us no 
written record. They have passed away, carrying with 
them the mystery of their origin and destiny; yet I be- 
lieve that some day some one will wrest the secret from 
those silent rocks and caves. It is certainly there. Who 
will find it?" 

The question comes up continually in a multiplicity 
of forms, and like Hamlet's ghost it will not down. Sen- 
ator J. Dolliver of Iowa, in a speech on "National Vicisi- 
tudes" said: "Would that some mighty genius would show us 
the people from whence sprung the beginnings of this 
nation, its mighty work, the outcome of which is the 
triumphant self government of our republic." 

Dolliver's speech was delivered at Long Beach, Cali- 
fornia at a Chautauqua gathering, and a brief notice of it 
was given in The Long Beach Press of July 29, 1903. To 
the question I made answer in the Press of date mentioned, 
in which I presented a few historical facts that reflected 
a ray of light on the problem, without however, attempting 
to pose as a "mighty genius." In 1880, however men of 
science branded me the "Boss Idiot of the Age" for assum- 
ing to be able to do what no man in the last two thousand 
years had done. It was assumed that forty days' total 
abstinence from food was without an authenticated parallel 
in history, and that I might as well attempt the melting 
of the Arctic sea with a lucifer match as to try to convince 
scientific men that such a feat was within the realm of 
the possible. Well, it is a matter of history — in the short 
space of forty days — the declared "impossible" was a fact 



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accomplished, and the "Idiot" came forth from the ordeal 
the acknowledged victor over all negationists and was 
named the "Boss Hero of the Age," as a sequence. If that 
event entitles me to the name and immunities of "A Mighty 
Genius," I have no intention to take issue with the "Cyclone 
Orator" on that point. 

The question uppermost in my mind is, whether my 
assumptions as to prehistoric man on this continent are 
history? If so then they negative the assumptions of Dr. 
Alexander Hrdlica. I flatter myself that I can represent a 
few more historical facts, that if they serve no higher pur- 
pose will at least blaze the way for some one to answer 
the question of Senator Dolliver and others, better quali- 
fied for the task. Whatever may be the outcome of my 
effort at unveiling the mysteries of the prehistoric periods 
of our nation's history, my attempt will possess the charm 
of novelty at least. The truth I have to present, came not 
from speculative theories of pseudo-philosophers, to whom 
the rattle of "dry bones" is music, nor from books or in- 
stitutions of learning , but from records faithfully hid away 
in the bosom of old mother earth— akin to those of geo- 
logical strata, which reveal more of the earth's history than 
was ever voiced by man, or written in the pages of a book. 
The evidence is rapidly accumulating— of an archeological 
character— from which we not only learn of the existence 
of prehistoric man on this continent, but we are learning 
what he did; how he lived, what he ate, what he wore, how 
he hunted, and what tools and weapons he used in so un- 
mistakeable a fashion that the prying curiosity of the 
modern bids fair to decipher the symbolic writings of the 
ancients, and even now we are astonished at the large 
number of facts that have been garnered into the store- 
house of knowledge, regarding the earliest history of man 
on this continent, and the small details of their daily life. 

It is not necessary to travel more than a hundred miles 
from Long Beach to find strong presumptive if not positive 
evidence, that prehistoric men were not strangers to the 
Pacific slope. 

THE PRE-HISTORIC MAN NOT A STRANGER TO 
THE COAST OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 

A special contributor to a California paper has recently 
written entertainingly of a visit to the Indian Painted Cave 
— Rancho— situated on a plateau, where from a bird's eye 
view is presented a most impressive panorama of Santa 
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with interlaced farms, orchards, lakes, cliffs, etc., also a 
description of the cave which it is assumed In prehistoric 
ages was the sporting ground for devout worshippers of 
the "Great Spirit," until in course of time the temple ser- 
vice gave way to the Sylvan retreat of Pan. 

The point of special interest in connection with this 
cave, is not its location, formation or size, but in the re- 
markable figures sketched on the ceiling by some ui> trace- 
ably remote artist, creating in the mind an expression of 
wonder. Among other inspiring scenes could be recognized 
symbols of Old World religions and mystic orders of re- 
motest antiquity, such as fragments of zodiacal constella- 
tions, etc. The correspondent affirms that there is indis- 
putable evidence that these old-time worshippers were 
acquainted with ancient religious lore. As to whence they 
came, when they lived, and whither they departed, is 
seemingly tracelessly buried in a prehistoric past. 

It is assumed on Indian authority, that these records, 
paintings and symbolic writings antedated the oldest tribes 
of red men on the continent. Are not testimonies of the 
rocks and caves of equal value of prehistoric life and activ- 
ities on this continent as dead men's bones? I think so! 

Our archeologists and philologists are fast coming to 
the conclusion that the "Mound Builders" of this conti- 
nent — who made our forgotten history — were the progeni- 
tors of the Algonquin tribes of Guatama, or America. That 
these prehistoric people were not one whit behind the 
boasted civilization of this age — or any age — has been 
proven by the extensive excavations made at Copan, Hon- 
duras, and other places. Great palaces and temples, giant 
stairways and broad plazas have been unearthed. Enough 
was uncovered to show that Copan was the capital of a 
great empire which had entirely vanished. The history 
of Copan and its mighty warriors, wise statesmen, and 
splendid government are written on numerous columns of 
stone, and on the walls of the palaces and temples. Phil- 
ologists have in a measure, read the calendar of the van- 
ished people and with this as a starting point, are grad- 
ually making progress toward the acquisition of knowledge 
of the mysterious people of the forgotten empire, including 
their language. When the work of exploration is resumed, 
it is expected that many finds will be made which will be 
of the greatest importance to American archeology and 
will nullify Dr. Alexander Hrdlica's assumption and will 
furnish in goodly measure an answer to Senator Dolliver's 
inquiry. 



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HIAWATHA A FACTOR IN OUR HISTORY. 

History gives us a faint glimpse of an Onondaga chief 
named "Hiawatha, who was born about one hundred years 
before the advent of Columbus to the shores of the western 
continent. He was possessed of the true humanitarian 
spirit The Golden Rule of conduct was his ruling senti- 
ment. If he "smoked the Pipe of Peace" with any tribe, 
kindred or tongue, no bribe could induce him to violate 
his covenant. Because he was a Red man he has been 
branded as a pagan, heathen and idolater, be that as it ma 5 . 
history says of the man that he possessed the heart of a 
true 6hristian and the brain of a statesman. Fifty years 
before the landing of Columbus, Hiawatha, assisted by the 
Mohawk chief. Dago-ono-wena, had brought about the 
confederacy known as the "Iroquois League The mem- 
bers of this celebrated confederacy were the Iroquois tribes 
known as the "Five Nations." namely: the Senecas, 
Cavugas. Onondagas, and Mohawks. The plan worked to 
perfection. It made the Iroquois the strongest people on 
this continent. The ignorant "savages" put to work m their 
midst the identical principles that underlie the operations 
of our federal government. „ ,. , 

Mr Gladstone declared the constitution of the United 
States 'was the greatest intellectual achievement of any 
age or country; but let It not be overlooked that the Iro- 
quois League anticipated our constitution by several cen- 
turies Hiawatha thought of and put Into execution the 
fundamental principles running all through our consti- 
tution The dominant idea running all through it is an 
"indestructible union of indestructible states" and is a 
legacy left us by the Iroquois confederacy. 

I quite agree with the Iowa senator, that there can 
be no more important a study than the history of our own 
country. It's a pity we do not know more about ths great 
Indian chiefs. Hiawatha and Daga-ono-weda who ga* s us 
the kev and model of our republic. They blazed he W*y 
for framers of our constitution, to lay the "chief corner 
ctone" of our national temple. 

Our nation has Just pride in having furnished a mode 
constitution and a model republic for the emulation of other 
Sons- in justice we ought to keep green the memory of 
Jhe original framers. who antedated Jay. Franklin Ham- 
Iton and Madison, three hundred and fifty years, in their 
laudable efforts to federate themselves for certain common 

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without a peer among nations. How came we thus great? 
We obtained our language and much of our national fabric 
from England; our civilization from Greece; and our 
religion from Palestine; but the Red men furnished the 
foundation stones of the government and also the name. 

Franklin's plan of Union, was directly inspired by the 
wisdom, durability and inherent strength which he had 
observed in the Iroquois tribal constitution and its practical 
results. 

The Algonquin tribes, at the time of the advent of the 
Pilgrim fathers, had forty tribal or state organizations, 
and their United States was named after their "Great 
Spirit," erroneously called "Algonquin." The aborigines 
have ever reverently entertained a belief in an ever present 
personality, a spirit whom they named "Agoaquim," and 
that inspiration, revelations and instructions as to tribal 
affairs was at all times available through their "medicine 
men," who stood in the same relation to them that Moses 
did to the Israelites, an intermediary between themselves 
and the Great Lawgiver. The Indians religiously obeyed 
the decreeing power, call it God, Jehovah, or whatever you 
choose. 

Apart from archeological history the Iroquois had 
many legendary tales corroborative of the statement that 
they believed in inspiration as a vital living reality in every 
age, including the present. 

These traditions were held as sacred as Bible truths 
are by Christians. Conspicuous among these legends is 
one reverently cherished, that assumes that an old-time 
"Medicine man" inspired by Agoaquim, "organized the 
Copper colored tribes into states." The legend runs thus: 

"Forty mighty nations shalt thou found. O, my son! 
and every nation shall be an independent nation, but all 
shall be united into a brotherhood of nations, and the union 
shall be called O-pah-e-go-quim, signifying one. for the 
time will come when the 'pale faces' will come and dwell 
with you, and in time they shall have many states — like 
unto them, the combination shall be called union, sig- 
nifying one. 'Build thou a model for them' " 

As instructed by their "medicine men" or their Moses, 
the Indian tribes of this continent were organized into 
states, and a nation as directed. The tribes were one 
mighty people and the union of states — forty in number — 
serve as a model for our union as it now stands. 

Now whether these legends stand on any firmer basis 
than mere conjecture. I have no means of knowing, but it 



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is an historical fact that the colonies managed their affairs 
for two decades of years on the Iroquois plan, and when 
they became the United States, as predicted they would be, 
the Iroquois themselves pointed out the striking similarity 
of our union of states to theirs, and gave them the name 
of the "Thirteen Fires." 

If there is no God in our constitution, history presents 
strong presumptive if not positive evidence that there 
was a God formulating and putting in execution plans 
for the coming republic. 

Does it require a greater stretch of credulity to assume 
that God formulated our constitution than it does that He 
formulated the 10 commandments of Moses? 

I assume every country of our globe, with two excep- 
tions, had legends of the flood. It would be a marvel, if 
among the great mass of lore, no fragments of the Deluge 
history were available upon which to predicate reliable 
data. The Brahmins, Buddhists, Mahomedans, and Mor- 
mons, each and all, have their so-called sacred books, as 
does Christendom. The plates upon which the "Book of 
Mormons" is based, were, it is claimed by its adherents, 
due to a "find" akin to the archeological culture of the 
present, and tell a story of the flood, and prehistoric man. 



THE MORMON BIBLE. 

The Mormons implicitly believe their Bible to be inspired, 
direct from God. In it we find a legend of three colonies, 
who emigrated from the Old World to America, where 
they dwelt and developed a civilization for a period of 
2,500 years prior to the year 400 of the A. D. calender. The 
history of these people, their voyages and discoveries, and 
their temporal and spiritual advancement, were engraven 
on metal plates, which being handed down from father 
to son, formed a record of his time. The last writer was 
Maroni, who, on account of wars devasting the land, sealed 
and buried the plates in a hill in Ontario County, N. Y. 
The hiding place of these plates was revealed to Joseph 
Smith, it is assumed, by an angel. Be that as it may, the 
book is apparently largely copied from the Bible. 

Regarding prehistoric history, the Book of Mormons 
alludes to the Genesis account of the destruction of the 
"Tower of Babel" and the confusion of tongues. Further, 
that the Lord was angry because of the presumption of 
the people engaged in Tower building, and scattered them 
abroad upon the face of all the earth. Some of the 
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the Lord caused a furious wind to blow in the direction 
of what is now the "land of the free and the home of 
the brave." After drifting before this wind for 334 days 
they reached the west coast of America, supposedly be- 
tween the Gulf of California and the Isthmus. And the 
Lord said: "Behold this is the land, which is choice above 
all other lands. And whatsoever nation shall possess it, 
shall be free from bondage and from captivity, if they 
will but serve the God of the land." In time this colony 
grew to be a great and populous nation, covering nearly 
all of the continent where they flourished for 1,500 years. 

The above is the Mormon theory of the first settlement 
of this continent. Concerning this Mormon coloring of 
this event, Josephus says: "After they — the Tower build- 
ers — were dispersed abroad on account of their languages, 
and went out by colonies everywhere, and each colony 
took possession of land, which they light upon and unto 
which God led them, so that the whole continent was 
filled with them, both the inland and maritime countries. 
There were some who passed over the sea in ships and 
inhabited the islands." 

This Mormon and Josephus rendering does not satis- 
fy the philosophic mind. There is something lacking to fill 
the gaps in their so-called inspired history. What is it? 
OASPHE TO THE FRONT. 

The book named Oahspe, which claims to be a history of 
all religions from the very dawn of creation, to my mind 
supplies the missing links. Its history is endorsed by 
300,000,000 Confucians, and I think meets the exacting de- 
mands of this hypercritical age, which calls for facts 
as to the prehistoric man. At any rate it presents strong, 
if not positive evidence — say archeological finds — showing 
that its prophecies rest on some more solid foundation 
than mere conjecture, or the assumptions of the "Book of 
Mormons." The latter history I bank on, let its origin be 
what it may. Its data are fortified by archeology, eth- 
nology and philology. Were it not I would not intrude 
upon the time and patience of my readers, with mere 
platitude and speculative opinions. 

ORSON PRATT AND THE MORMON BIBLE. 

In the introduction to the book "Divine Authenticity of 
the Book of Mormons," Apostle Orson Pratt uses the fol- 
lowing words: "This book must be either true or false. 
If true, it is one of the most important messages ever 
sent from God to man, effecting both temporal and eternal 
interests of every people under heaven to the same ex- 



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tent and in the same degree, that the message of Noah 
affected the inhabitants of the old world. If false, it is 
one of the most cunning, wicked, bold, deep laid imposi- 
tions ever palmed upon the world; calculated to deceive 
and ruin millions who will sincerely receive it as the 
word of God, and will suppose themselves securely built 
on the rock of truth until they are plunged with their 
families into hopeless dispair. The nature of the mes- 
sage from the "Book of Mormons" is such, that if true, 
no one can possibly be saved and reject it; if false, no 
one can possibly be saved and receive it." 

I assume, without fear of successful contradiction, that 
the "Book of Mormons," if inspired, is the product of a 
wicked and designing spirit, a one time mortal, who de- 
siring leadership and dominion over mortals and spirits, 
with all the diabolical cunning of Satan, disguised him- 
self as an "angel of light," assumed any name, and any 
form and any disguise to deceive mortals. The world is 
warned of such deceiving angels, in unambiguous lan- 
guage, and with a "Thus saith the Lord," emphasis, in 
the Scriptures — but still the over credulous dupes still 
continue to chase after phantoms to the undoing of them- 
selves and families. I ask the Mormons if the god whom 
they assume dictated the Mormon bible, is the one and 
only true God, or a counterfeit of the Baal, Ashteroth, 
and Dagan stripe, mentioned in the Scriptures. I assume 
it to be the latter, posing as an angel of light. 

Apostle Orson Pratt has held up the looking glass be- 
fore the thousands of his ism, and I think signed its 
death warrant when he affirms that if the Book of Mor- 
mons is false, no one can possibly be saved and receive 
it. I have presented incontrovertable evidence that the 
book has no basis for assuming that its revelations are 
from any source but a false god. Paul is on record as 
saying "There be gods many, but to us there is but one 
God, to whom be all honor, praise and glory." 

By the standard Orson Pratt sets up, I condemn the 
book as misleading, and a menace to the morals of all who 
accept its teachings, as the history of Mormonism shows 
beyond a peradventure. I care not if the inspiration and 
revelations are of an angel posing as a god, his code of 
ethics is sadly in need of repair. The tree must be judged 
by its fruits. A good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit, 
nor a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." 

It may be asked; "Is not the St. James version of the 
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as the Mormon book, when treating of events like the 
flood?" I answer yes; but the book gives a good reason 
for its want of detail in the following words, found in 
the 21st chapter of John and the 25th verse, namely: 
"And there were also many other things, which if writ- 
ten every one, the world itself could not contain that 
which should be written." 



OAHSPE STRAIGHTENS OUT THE TANGLE. 

The following exerpts from Oahspe have been in my 
possession for a quarter of a century, and highly esteemed 
for their intrinsic value, revealing as they do. the wisdom 
of the Great Surgeon of all Surgeons, in amputating a 
continent, and sinking it in a flood of waters. The de- 
baucheries and rottenness of the Deluvians, demanded that 
heroic measures be resorted to for the extirpation of the 
seething mass of corruption, and its burial in a watery 
grave, as a sanitary measure if for no other. 

Liken that continent to a man with one of his limba 
eating away his life with ulcers of a phaga denic char- 
acter. A wise surgeon would at once insist on amputa- 
tion in order to preserve the trunk from becoming involved 
in the impending dissolution. He would look past the pain, 
sorrow and discomforts of the present moment to the 
resulting good that would follow when the parts were 
healed. 

The history of the flood recorded 2500 years ago, or 
longer, read: "And man multiplied and inhabited the 
earth over, building cities and nations, and prospering in 
certain seasons in all things earthly. But as I, the Lord, 
came to earth to develop the soul of man chiefly, and for 
his ultimate happiness, I laboured not for such as heeded 
me not, but suffered them to go on in their conceit. And 
they became divided against one another and war and 
pestilence and diverse diseases came upon mortals, result- 
ing in their further downfall. And the spirits of the 
dead that denied me on earth still denied me in the un- 
organized heavens of the earth, and in their stubborn- 
ness ani conceit, continued to dwell with mortals on the 
earth, so that in course of time the world was over run 
with spirits of darkness. And it came to pass, that my 
enemies slew my chosen on every hand. 

"There were Druks (mortals below grade one), in those 



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days, and they cruelly oppressed my chosen by violence, 
and they bare children unto them. Their flesh became cor- 
rupt, so that vermin inhabited them from the time of 
their birth to the time of their death. And they became 
rotten with catarrh, and in the throat with ulcers and 
running sores, and in the lungs and joints with the poison 
of death. And their offspring that was born unto them 
came forth afflicted with the sins of their fathers and 
mothers, to linger in misery, or to die in infancy. And 
they thus peopled the world of earth-bound spirits, with 
untimely births, and with spirits of darkness. And I saw 
that to bring the remnants of my people together (unmo- 
lested by Druks), they could again re-establish themselves 
and become the seed of a mighty people. Rut as for the 
land of Whaga (Japan), it was already in the throes of 
death. And the Druks had become as a festering sore; 
and vampire spirits, tens of thousands of millions of them, 
would not quit their hold on mortals, while life was upon 
the earth. 

THE CHOSEN WARNED OF IMPENDING PERIL. 

"And I sent my angels around about on the earth, and 
gathered in the spirits of darkness, into the land of Whaga 
(Japan). And I said a wise physician amputateth a dis- 
eased limb, and so preserveth the trunk from disease and 
death. And I, the Lord, called unto my chosen, who were 
persecuted by the druks and hid away in the valleys and 
mountains in the land of Pan (Japan), and I said unto 
them: 'Because ye have kept my commandments, ye have 
found favor in my sight. Go to, therefore, and build ships 
sufficient, and get ye within, where none can persue or 
destroy; for behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the 
earth, even above the highest mountains; for I will destroy 
the corruption thereof and purge it of all uncleanness. 
Take ye therefore, of all food that is good to eat, and 
gather it into the ships, for the flood shall remain a hun- 
dred and fifty days, and ye shall not come forth and find 
wherewith to eat.' (The Genesis account limits the dura- 
tion of the flood to forty days). 

" 'And the angels of the Lord went to the chosen and 
inspired them to build ships; for two whole years they 
builded, and then they were completed. And the ships 
numbered one hundred and thirty-eight. (The Book of 
Mormons says eight). And the ships stood on the moun- 
tains and in the valleys; no where near the water stood 
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my chosen in the ships, I raised my hand, as a surgeon 
that would lop oft a diseased limb, and I cleft the continent 
of Pan, and sunk the amputated part beneath the waters. 
And the earth rocked to and fro as a ship at sea; and 
the rains fell in torrents; and loud thunders came up from 
beneath the floor of the world. And the sea came upon 
the land, even upon the mountains, so that the ships 
floated on the water. But the land was swallowed up, 
valleys and mountains, and all the living perished, save 
the Ihins (the chosen) who floated off in the ships.' 

"And the number saved was twelve thousand, four 
hundred and twenty. And the Lord said: 'Behold, I 
will carry them to all the divisions of the earth, and peo- 
ple it anew with the seed of my chosen.' And Jehovah 
blew His breath upon the ships, blew them to the north, 
and south, and east and west. These ships formed into 
four fleets, thirty-four ships in each fleet, save two ships 
which were carried of by themselves. 

"And the Lord said: 'I will name the fleets and they 
shall be everlasting on the earth.' And they were named 
Gautama, Shem, Jaffeth, Ham and Yista." 

(Esdras or Ezra), who claims to be the writer of the 
Pentateuch, gives these names to phantom persons, the 
revelations referred to ascribes the names to countries.) 

In 150 days from the beginning of the flood (the Book 
of Mormons affirms that the time the refugees drifted 
was 334 days), the ships were brought to their respective 
places. The fleet named Gautama was carried to the east- 
ward, and the country where it landed was called Gau- 
tama (America). The Lord said: "From this place shall 
my chosen spread out north and south; but they shall not 
inhabit the lands to the east and west, as far as the 
sea; for they shall be a testimony in time to come of 
this landing place from the continent of Pan." 

God said: "Suffer my people to name the countries 
wither I will lead them; for these names shall show in 
the coming eras the work of my hand done in this day." 

The two ships carried to the north, were named Yista, 
which in the Whaga tongue was Zha-Pan, which is the 
same country that is this day called Japan; signifying 
relic of the continent of Pan, for it lay to the north where 
the land was cleft in twain. 

The fleet named Jaffeth, was driven to the westward 
and north, and the country was called Jaffeth for thous- 
ands of years thereafter, and is the same as is called China 
to this day. 



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The fleet named Ham. landed southwest, and the 
country was called the Land of Ham for thousands of 
years, and Is the same as is called Egypt and Africa, to 
this day. 

And God said: "Behold my chosen shall manifest many 
signs and words common to one another in these different 
divisions of the earth. They shall remember the flood, 
for I will give them a sign, which is my crescent in the 
form of a rainbow. They shall worship me the Great 
Spirit, only. They shall have the Triangle, they shall pre- 
serve the four days of the change of the moon, as sacred 
days, and they shall be called moon's days— Sabbaths. 
They shall have three representative symbols of light; 
the sun, moon, and burning flame. My chosen shall use 
these lights and symbols, signs and seasons, in all the di- 
visions of the earth whither I have settled them." 



PROOF OF THE ABOVE PREDICTIONS AND 
MANDATES ABUNDANT. 

The revelations quoted, reveal to us what geology has 
proven, that 25,000 years at least have elapsed since the 
flood. Relics found in all the countries where the fleets 
landed are abundant. 

One hundred and thirty-six boxes of toys, musical in- 
struments, pottery, models of houses, facial masks, war 
clubs, arrows, spears, stone hatchets, bone needles, needle 
and feather work, children's toys, ornaments, reed and 
basket work, have found lodgment in the museums on 
this continent, all going to show that prehistoric man was 
industrious and ingenious. 

Of all the relics found in the various countries in which 
relics were found, pottery is the most abundant. Prof. Ma- 
homet, the eminent archeologist, sees in these pottery relics 
more than a mere superficial observer would deem of in- 
terest. I think it safe to assume that the professor was a 
high degree Mason, as none other would comprehend the 
signs depicted on one vase, every sign used by modern 
free Masons, including the sign of distress. There, too, is 
the cross and the representative symbols of light, the sun, 
moon and stars, also the crescent, circle and zodiacal signs 
as seen on the ceiling of the cave at Santa Barbara and 
many other places on the continent. Making estimates of 
the length of time needed to make the star orbits, Professor 
Mahomet asserts that three hundred generations of men 
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the vase. He assumes that the cross emblems antedated 
the Messianic period many thousands of years; one of its 
oldest forms, known as the Crux Ansata, often called "The 
Key to the Nile," by reason of its being found on Egyptian 
monuments. It was the symbol of symbols, the mystic 
Tau, the "Hidden Wisdom," emblem of the "Life to Come" 
not only of the Egyptians but other ancient nations, in- 
cluding the Peruvians. These emblems came into the pos- 
session of the Cliff Dwellers and other people without doubt 
from the little Ihins, the refugees from the continent of 
Pan, primarily, and was handed down to the Cliff Dwellers 
as a legacy from the little sacred people. 

Relics, too numerous to mention, arrived on this con- 
tinent from Siberia, and are strikingly similar, in all re- 
spects, to relics recently found in Alaska. These relics 
from countries geographically remote from one another, 
are now on exhibition in the Athropological Department 
of the American Museum of Natural History. Other col- 
lections (equally numerous and varied), are found in other 
archives on this continent and Europe. 

Money in fabulous amounts has been expended by a 
lady of abundant means, in, collecting relics, laudably am- 
bitious to present the same for exhibition in a Southern 
California institute, having a department of natural history. 

The relics in the American Museum, as object lessons, 
show (to a degree bordering on certainty), that the 
ancient dwellers of Siberia and Alaska were deluvians 
from Japan at the time of the flood. It was decreed at the 
time, that the Ihins (called also the "Little Sacred People"), 
that sailed from Japan in the fleet named Gautama, should 
after landing in America, spread out North and South, 
without restriction, but should not inhabit lands east or 
west as far as the sea. This mandate has been complied 
with. The relics of the "Mound Builders" are found a» 
far north as Lake Superior and recent finds in Alaska 
would indicate that the "Little People" were numbered 
among the explorers of that land of ice and snow, like 
those of Siberia. 

The relics of the Mound Builders are found as far south 
as Peru and Central America, but no mounds are found 
on either the Atlantic or Pacific coasts. Why? There are 
far more desirable lands bordering on the seaboard than in 
the Lake Superior country or Alaska. 

A striking proof of the reliability of the revelations and 
prophecies quoted, is found in the fact that the Mound 
Builders were restricted to certain limits east and west, 



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and beyond those geographical lines they did not pass. 
These little people proved as predicted they would be, the 
seed of a mighty people, industrious and well learned in 
the arts and sciences. Especially were they learned in 
the geography of the heavens; the sun, moon and stars. In 
mechanics there is evidence to show that in this age, they 
have few equals along many lines. The evidence of the 
wonderful engineering ability of the Ihins remains to this 
day, scattered all the way from Lake Superior to the 
Gulf of Mexico. Wherever mounds are found in the mid- 
dle and southern states, there we find relics of a people 
whose ancestors (were without doubt) of the number who 
built ships on the coast of Japan in the long, long ago, and 
who by the irresistible inspiration of the Great All Wise 
Dispenser of human events, escaped the awful cataclysm 
accompanying the submerging of a continent. There is 
evidence that these skilled artisans understood the lost art 
of tempering copper. Tools made of that metal (tempered 
to a hardness equal, if not superior to our best steel pro- 
ducts), have been discovered buried deep in the debris of 
the Lake Superior Copper mines. 

These enterprising little people engineered, built and 
navigated a canal, extending from the copper mines of 
Lake Superior to the capital city of Mexico. A collossal en- 
terprise, for that day and generation, surely. The shining 
copper still covering the roofs of some of the antiquated 
buildings in ruins of the City of Mexico must have found 
transit from the Superior copper mines by the canal route, 
on boats built and navigated by the Ihins tens of thous- 
ands of years since. 

A building (in ruins), in Old Mexico, of gigantic propor- 
tions has three hundred and sixty-five copper covered 
turrets representing each day in the year. Travelers tell 
us that it was in its day a paragon of architectural and 
mechanical skill. Hieroglyphics, inscribed therein and 
thereon show that it was built by the Ihins as a perpetual 
reminder of the flood, as much so as the rainbow is a 
periodical and never-failing reminder of the covenant made 
by the Creator to His "chosen," that no more shall the in- 
habitants of the earth be destroyed by water, caused by a 
sinking continent. 

If Chinese chronology is correct, seventy-five thousand 
years are numbered with the past since the flood. 

If there is no covenant-making Creator, and no God to 
keep such a covenant, how is it that no flood of like 

character has since deluged the earth? 



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The Ihins, the forerunners of the Ihuans (the Red men) 
did establish themselves, as was decreed, as the seed of 
a mighty people. They built cities and villages — Copan 
for example — which some authorities affirm, was larger 
than London; they tilled the ground and raised grains 
and seeds to eat; and flax and hemp as covering for their 
bodies. They toiled by day, bringing into their cities the 
fruits of their labors; they slept on mounds at night, that 
they might not be molested by beasts of prey, and by 
serpents of prodigious size; in all things they fulfilled the 
mandate of God. 



RED MEN HYBRIDS. 

There is good grounds for assuming that the copper 
colored tribes of this continent are hybrids (a cross between 
the Druks and Little Ihins). Be that as it may, the In- 
dians, while they were giants in stature compared with the 
Ihins, and of corresponding strength and endurance, yet 
mentally and morally they were notably inferior to the lit- 
tle people. The Indians seldom show any adaptation to 
the arts, sciences and mechanics. They never built cities 
or villages, they are nut tillers of the soil; they live by 
hunting and fishing as did the "cave dwellers." 

From the Ihins (it is safe to assume), the Algonquin 
tribes came in possession of the signs and pass words, 
common to the Ihins and to all the descendants of the 
Deluvians that settled in China, India, Japan, Africa, and 
this country. All these people (of whatever name or coun- 
try), have the crescent (the rainbow reminder of the flood). 
They have the triangle, they smoke the ''pipe of peace." 
They preserve the four days of the change of the moon 
as Sabbath days, as do the aborigines of this continent. 
They each and all have three representative symbols of 
light; the sun, moon and burning flame. They each and 
all worship the Great Spirit. 

It was decreed at the time of the flood, by God, that His 
chosen should use the lights, symbols, signs and seasons, 
in all the division of the earth whither He settled them. All 
of these descendants of the Deluvians (of whatever coun- 
try), were of one speech originally. On all the continents 
named, where the chosen landed, spake they alike man to 
man. In those days speech was largely made in the throat, 
without the tongue and lips, and many of our Indian tribes 
still adhere to the gutteral sounds in the throat. 

The signs and pass words of the descendants of the 
"chosen" are today recognized in Asia, Africa, and America. 



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An American Indian (of any tribe), were he to visit China, 
Japan, India, or Egypt today, could reveal his lineage by 
pass words and signs, and were he in distress or needing 
help, he would be cared for in a distant country; even as 
the Masonic fraternity recognize one another by their 
signs, grips and passwords in all the countries of the world, 
regardless of tribe, color or tongue. 

Efforts have been repeatedly made, and as often failed, 
to educate the Algonquin tribes, to our methods of com- 
puting time. Lunar months with us the Indian persistently 
name moons. Twelve months, our year, is unalterably with 
the Red men, twelve moons. 

In obedience to the command of the Great Spirit (who 
decreed that the sun, moon and stars should be for days, 
months and years. The twelve moons year of the 
Algonquin tribes terminates with the winter Solstice, or the 
19th day of the twelfth moon. On that day the sun has 
reached its extreme southern declension. Two days from 
that time, when the sun resumes its northern journey 
again, the New Year of the Red men commences, and who 
can say that this appointed method of computing days, 
months and years, are defective, when compared with 
the methods of so-called civilized nations. The sun is 
never a half-minute late, nor a half-minute fast. Accuracy 
is the ruling sentiment of the Ever Present power that 
regulates the machinery of the planetary system, of which 
the sun is the central figure. 



SYMBOLIC WRITINGS CONFIRM THE REVELA- 
TIONS. 

Symbolic writings are found in profusion in all the 
countries where the Deluvians landed, and they fortify 
(in a notable degree), the reliability of the revelations 
quoted. 

Sir William Jones the philologist, has observed that 
the inscriptions of Canarah, in the Island of Salcutta, are 
composed of Nigarian-Ethiopian characters, which have a 
close analogy to one another, not only in the singular 
manner of connecting the vowels with the consonants, but 
in the striking fact that they are written from the left 
hand to the right; showing that the ancient system of let- 
ters, in India and Ethiopia, may be considered the same. 
This analogy has been noticed and commented on by 
other philologists of note. 

Mr. Bryant says: "Nilus the Egyptian Archeologist, 
tells Appolinus Tyanus, that the Indis of all people in the 



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world were the most knowing, and adds that the Etheop- 
ians were a colony from them, and resembled them 
greatly in their symbolic writings. 

Philostratus is on record as saying the same of the 
Indis and Ethiopians, differing only in phraseology. 

All these writers predicate the wisdom of the Ethiop- 
ians of the long, long ago on the inherited wisdom of 
their Indi-progenitors. 

It requires no great stretch of credulity on my part, to 
credit the conceded wisdom of the Indi-Ethiopians to the 
Infinite intelligence that endowed the Ihins of this con- 
tinent with a faith and wisdom that dumbfounds by its 
magnitude; inspiring them to build ships, navigate oceans, 
without chart or compass, and ultimately land them to 
a foreordained port, from thence to disperse inland, and 
become a people mighty in numerical strength and wis- 
dom. 

Where did the Deluvians attain to a knowledge of ship- 
building and ocean navigation, upon unknown seas? 
Who can answer? 

It is affirmed that one of the Ave fleets that left 
Japan, landed thousands of Deluvians in Ethiopia or 
Africa. They were of the same speech as those who 
landed in India, all had the same pass words and signs; 
all smoked the pipe of peace; all using the same symbolic 
Ascriptions, in the singular manner described. 

All the philologists mentioned, are unanimous that the 
inscriptions of Canarah are compounded of Nigarian- 
Ethiopic characters, which bear so close an analogy to 
one another; that notwithstanding the great distance of 
India and Ethiopia, one from the other and the inter- 
vention of so many nations between, they decide — and 
no doubt correctly — that they are one and the same in 
their origin; the knowledge of the Ethiopians in sym- 
bolic writing being a legacy from India, from which 
country, it is assumed, the Ethiopians as a community 
sprung. 

Conceding the superior wisdom of the philologists 
cited, I beg leave to suggest, that this striking analogy 
in symbolic characters, can be more reasonably accounted 
for on the hypothesis, that the ancestors of the Ethiopians 
were originally from the sunken continent of "Pan," 
fleeing from thence in large numbers to escape a watery 
grave. 

Had Sir William Jones assumed that the ancestors of 
the Ethiopians were a colony from Japan, survivors of 



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the flood, instead of India, I feel safe in assuming he 
would have approximated nearer to the truth. 

It is generally conceded that the archeological finds on 
all the continents unmistakably point to Asia as in some 
way associated with their origin. My hypothesis does not 
antagonize the assumption, but it falls short of the eagerly 
looked for definite information. 

I assume that Japan — called by the ancients "Whaga" 
— was the birth place of both the Indis and Ethiopians, 
and the progenitors of both were the survivors of the flood. 
If we accept the hypothetical novelty as the more plaus- 
able solution of the problem, then we may reasonably 
expect that the ancient system of symbolic writings would 
be found not only in India and Egypt, but China, Japan, 
and America, in short all countries where the five fleets 
landed. Philology reveals the fact that there is a strik- 
ing analogy between them all. Dialects may and do 
differ, in all the countries mentioned; oral language may 
be confounded, but all languages have one common root, 
and the symbolic inscriptions found in Ethiopia, in 
Babylon, in Peru, Central America and United States 
would be readily deciphered by the descendants of the 
flood survivors, wherever located; even as the signs and 
symbols of the Masonic fraternity — a legacy from the 
survivors of the flood — would be recognized on all the 
continents mentioned, regardless of tribe, kindred or 
tongue. Nearly all Masons wear charms upon which are 
found symbolic characters of the order, intelligible to all 
the Masons and all initiates in any part of the globe. So 
with the symbolic inscriptions under consideration. Sym- 
bols, even to the sign of distress, have been found on the 
vases of the Cliff Dwellers. Had China preserved the 
original symbols which marked the first stages of her 
social life after the flood, we should, without doubt, find 
exactly the same combination of Indi-Ethiopic writing 
found in Canarah and Salcutta. 

The earth language — Panic — would naturally come to 
man to call every thing by the name it utters. We have 
this method illustrated in China today, the serpent, the 
sheep the cow, the horse, in short many things are named 
as they name themselves; hiss, babah, cowh, and so on. 
In our own time and country we have named many of 
the feathered tribe by the sound they utter. For illus- 
tration: The Whippoorwill and the Cuckoo. The reason 
will readily suggest itself to any person who has heard 



PRE-HISTORIC MAN. 



43 



the Whippoorwill's paintive note at eventide or the Cuckoo* 
no less peculiar call. 

When man began to write, making arbitrary pro- 
nunciations, he began to lose the original names. He be- 
gan with mono-syllabic words, because of the combina- 
tion of things themselves. We use this combination as in 
Nitro-glycerine, and so on, with a distinct meaning for 
each syllable. The original Chinese language— Panic— 
and Yi-haic, or many syllable words— have given birth 
to all the languages of the world, including those of In- 
dia and Ethiopia; it therefore requires no great stretch of 
credulity, on my part, to accept the hypothesis that the 
monosyllabic words found in Ethiopia, like those of India 
are substitutes for the original Yi-haic in use by all the 
Asiatics at the time of the flood, and for many subsequent 
periods, on all the continents where the Deluvians landed. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN A PROPHET. 

Abraham Lincoln at the close of the war, wrote to a 
friend as follows: "Yes, the cruel war is over; the 
best blood of the flower of American youth has been 
freely offered on the country's altar, in order that our 
country might live. It has been indeed a trying hour 
for this republic, but I see in the near future a crisis 
arising that un-nerves me and causes me to tremble for 
the welfare of my country. As a result of this war, 
corporations have been enthroned, and an era of cor- 
ruption in high places will follow. The money power 
will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the 
prejudices of the people until the republic will be de- 
stroyed. God grant my fears may be groundless." 

Theodore Roosevelt admits today that our country 
is on the top of a dangerous volcano, and is wielding 
the "big stick" vigorously in the vain hope to stay the 
mighty tide of corruption in high places. 

That Abraham Lincoln's fears were not groundless 
has been clearly portrayed in the preceding pages of 
this book. What is the remedy? A return to the origi- 
nal doctrines and usages of the primitive church, which 
I have assumed were communistic, in all its details. 
In a former page of this book I referred the reader to 
the second chapter of Acts, which gives a synopsis of 
the doctrines and usages of the primative church, and 
also elucidated the doctrines of the Incas community 
life anterior to the pre-Columbian culture of this conti- 
nent, claiming it to be based on the same fundamental 
principles as the Apostolic church of which Jesus of 
Nazereth was the formulator and ordainer. The spirit 
of the high standard of justice and morals which charac- 
terized the Apostolic churches, handed down to the 



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! >,T mU ^ y 011 this conti nent, and their phenome- 
n? th p i5 happiness is attributed to their practice 
J h ^ 1 Go f n 1 R " e m all the affairs of life. I assume 
that all the loyal Jews lived in communities, holding 
all things in common. And it seems a fitting climax 
to Jewish communal life, that it should have produced 
a law-giver whose inspired mind was able to express 
the essence of all good laws in one sentence: "Whatso- 
ever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even 
so to them." It was a communistic life that was fore- 
ordained to give to the world that masterpiece of the 
Creators skill and power, the divinely human and 
huamnly divine man, Jesus of Nazereth, in the majesty 
of whose virtues, heroism and firmness in proclaiming 
truth, language is impoverished; all human description 
fails and the living light of eloquence is darkened forever 
It must be just such a combination of environments 
that must reproduce the "Second Messiah," for whose 
corning the world is on the tip-toe of expectation. All 
The early disciples of the Judean prophet, priest and 
healer were Incas; if not in name, they were in prin- 
ciple. They held all things in common. 

I assume that our religious organizations, faulty as 
they are, are the bulwark of our very imperfect civiliza- 
tion, therefore to be fostered. The way out of our de- 
clension of morals is to labor for the reinstatement of 
the doctrines and usages of the communistic primitive 
church, as portrayed in the second chapter of Acts The 
practical workings of such a life has been portrayed by 
Alexander Harvey in the foregoing description of the 
lives of the Incas communists. The description vividly 
portrays, no doubt, the civilization the future has in store 
for us when the prayer of the ages, "Thy kingdom come » 
is answered. I affirm that a return to the communistic life 
of the early disciples, and the Incas, is among the possi- 
bilities, as I know from a five years communistic life 
patterned after the Essenean Brotherhood. Oh, you my 
reader, may say, communistic life has been tried ' and 
tailed again and again. Are you quite sure you are right 
m your conclusions? How about the Shaker commu- 
nities that flourish in every state in the Union, almost 9 
How about the Golden Rule Community of Iowa 9 All 
these communities have demonstrated the feasibility 
desirability and practicability of communistic life. What 
if some of these enterprises have seemingly failed? The 
laying of the Atlantic cable was a success only after 
repeated failures. Has not the human family as much 
of the co-operative spirit as a hive of bees, which aptly 
exemplifies co-operative life? If you answer in the nega- 
tive, then I say shame on the "Lords of Creation," who 
boast of their pre-eminence over bees, and rob them of 
their stores with impunity, and without the formality 



PRE-HISTORIC MAN. 



45 



of saying "if you please." All that is needed to make 
the Incas communal life a success is the same spirit of 
self abnegation that the bees manifest in their communal 
homes. 

There is a community in the South Sea Islands that 
is worthy of mention. The island is called "Tristan de 
Cuna." Nature has been at no pains to prepare an 
earthly paradise on this lonely isle. Its very remote- 
ness from the world of strife and consequent perils, is 
what has contributed to establish an Arcadia there. The 
primitive community is as free from written laws as a 
hive of bees. All being law abiding, they need no laws, 
and consequently no officials to enforce the laws. They 
have no saloons, no butcher shops, no jails. They have 
no formal government, and pay no taxes. They enjoy 
perfect freedom that never degenerates into license. 

The community is absolutely moral, and in the en- 
joyment of the inalienable right to life, liberty and the 
pursuit of happiness. There are no stores on the island, 
therefore no competition. Compare such a civilization 
with ours, where every man who is the head of a family 
pays on the average $25.00 per capita for the punish- 
ment of criminals, estimated at $500,000,000 per annum 
in the aggregate — more than the per capita tax per an- 
num for education. If millionaires refuse to consider the 
present crisis in our national affairs, then I fear that 
Abraham Lincoln's prediction that the money power 
will prolong its reign until the republic is destroyed will 
come true. The door of escape I have pointed out. The 
question for us to consider is, shall our beloved country 
travel the highway of TRUST magnates from poverty to 
riches, and its vulgar selfishness, and go down in ruin 
as did Babylon, Egypt and Rome? These questions will 
do to pray over. 

The Jews have from time immemorial been massa- 
cred by the thousands by the representatives of the 
"Church Militant," robbed of their inalienable right to 
"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," yet the Jews, 
through their representative Rabbis, see in the person 
of the Messiah an ideal character, one worthy of emula- 
tion and reverence. I can, in this connection, quote from 
one very learned Rabbi only, Friedlander of Vienna, 
Germany, but from its character many other Rabbinical 
utterances can be judged. Friedlander is on record as 
saying: ''The synagogue of Primitive Christianity was 
the direct offspring of the Jewish synagogue. Here the 
center of sublime, divine science, which powerfully in- 
fluenced the pious souls, was Moses and the prophets, 
hallowed in addition by the splendors of the invisible 
ruling Messiah. In this synagogue originated a new 
Israel, which silently prospered beside the burden of the 
law, which burden killed the spirit of the Messianic 



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doctrines, and at the same time prepared the ossifica- 
tion and dwarfing of Judaism. The Messianic syna- 
gogue was a true house of God, which made all who 
entered it enthusiastic for pure Mosaism, whose princi- 
ple doctrine was LOVE TO GOD AND MAN. In short, 
it was a synagogue to which, if it existed today in its 
purity, all hearts would be drawn, and around which 
the entire enlightened Judaism would gather. And He 
who was the starting point of the Messianic idea, who 
fertilized and rejuvenated it, by the sublime Messianic 
teachings, was proclaimed divine because of the redemp- 
tion undertaken by Him in Palestine, from the insupport- 
able burdens which the Pharasee teachers imposed upon 
the people. Always higher, on to unapproachableness, 
grew His personality, including all that is beautiful, lofty, 
sublime and divine, and forcing everyone to adoration 
and self nobilization. 

This divine Son of Man became the world's ideal, and 
this sublime ideal originated in Judaism, and will ever 
be remembered as having been predestinated by Provi- 
dence to bring forth such a masterpiece of creation. 

Noble words fitly spoken, and coming from a syna- 
gogue Rabbi, they are astounding. Could those senti- 
ments have been more fitly expressed, had the Rabbi 
substituted the term Christ for Messiah? I think not. 
The "Dove of peace, good will to man" surely nestled in 
the folds of that "flag of truce." Three times he ac- 
knowledged the Messiah as the "SENT OF GOD." What 
more could the sticklers for denominational names, 
creeds and dogmas require? 



THE SUNKEN CONTINENT YET TO BE DISCOVERED. 

One prophecy regarding the flood history, remains to 
be fulfilled, namely, the discovery of a sunken continent — 
which I assume is near at hand. When the time comes 
the archeologists and their co-workers will reap a rich 
harvest of material upon which to predicate anti- and 
post-Deluvian histories of the world of unparalleled in- 
terest to philologists, historians, theologians, geologists, 
astronomers; yea! all classes of enquirers. 

This submerged continent will afford an opportunity 
for Cavaliere Guiseppe Pino, the inventor of the hydro- 
scope, fitted out with special lenses, telescope fashion, for 
examining the ocean's bed, however deep the waters may 
be, as easily as we may now view a landscape through a 
field glass. With this hydroscope, the inventor claims to 
have the power to solve all the secrets of the ocean. The 
treasures hidden in all waters of the world are, he claims, 
ait his absolute mercy. 



PRE-HISTORIC MAN. 



47 



There is no limit to the wealth on the submerged 
continent of Pan. A hint to Pino's ocean treasure hunters 
is sufficient. The discovery of this sunken continent will 
give birth to the wildest enthusiasm among all classes, 
especially those whose only aspiration around which all 
else revolves, is wealth and the prestige it insures. I can 
say with assurance that on the sunken continent of Pan, 
lies hidden, gold, silver, precious stones pearl, galore. A 
hint is sufficient. 

In the foregoing pages, I have, I think, answered Sen- 
ator Doliver's question, as to the "origin of the people 
who first peopled this continent." Whether I have nulli- 
fied Dr. Alexander Hrdlica's assumption, namely: "No 
evidence has been presented to show the existence of 
prehistoric man on this continent," I leave my readers to 
judge. 

It is a rule in pholosophy, to accept such a solution of 
a problem as seemingly best explains it, holding it as hy- 
pothetical and provisional, until something more satis- 
factory or demonstrative, is substituted. If my postulates 
best explains the problem of pre-historic man on this con- 
tinent, then by all the ruleg of philosophy, my hypothetical 
novelties, as given in these pages, must be regarded as 
authoratative, until something more definite can be sub- 
stituted. All that I aspired to is to blaze the way for some 
one better qualified for the task. I invite honest criticism 
on the inconsistencies of my position, if any. In that way 
I may learn to see myself as others see me. 

In closing allow me to say, that following as I have 
done, in some respects, an unbeaten path, I cannot reas- 
onably claim exemption from errors and imperfections. 
Such as it is, however, it is respectfully submitted to a 
candid and discerning public, with the hope that any 
criticism it may excite may not be exclusively destruc- 
tive, but in some degree constructive; that it may not 
only expose error and imperfections (which should faith- 
fully be done), but suggest improvements, so that by 
the combined intelligence of many, some closer approxi- 
mation to the truth may be made, than I dare presume to 
have attained, notwithstanding the degree of confidence 
I may have in the general correctness of the method 
pursued, and the results to which it has led. 



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